Waldorf Salad for Easter Brunch

Recipe:
Green sour apples, 5 or 6 chopped
     I used Granny Smith, 5
     and 2 fuji's
Celery 7 or 8 chopped stalks
Red seedless grapes or Raisins
     I used grapes cut in half
Walnuts chopped
1/2 cup real mayonaise
1 cup sugar depending on how much you make.

I also tried whipped topping and like the tangy taste of the mayo & sugar better, which is the true recipe anyway, and you can see the fruit.

My Grandma Willson used to make this with fried chicken, of course deviled-eggs and we also had potato-salad.  I never liked Waldorf Salad when I was a kid, (hate celery and walnuts and the apples were sour)  since blogging, I'm collecting our family recipes.

Adams' Curse

The fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart. There's something ails our colt
That must, as if it had not holy blood
Nor on Olympus leaped from cloud to cloud,
Shiver under the lash, strain, sweat and jolt
As though it dragged road-metal. My curse on plays
That have to be set up in fifty ways,
On the day's war with every knave and dolt,
Theatre business, management of men.
I swear before the dawn comes round again
I'll find the stable and pull out the bolt.

A Line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Better go down upon your marrow bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones
Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;
For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these...

Seamus Heaney

Happy Birthday Patricia 

March 30, 1940

Potholderz & Placemat

VANITY, n.  The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when 

There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid;

And there are hens, professing to have made 

A study of mankind, who say that men

Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen

Make the most clamorous fanfaronade

O'er their most worthless work; and I'm afraid

They're not entirely different from the hen.

Lo! The drum-major in his coat of gold,

His blazing breeches and high-towering cap--

Imperiously pompous, grandly bold,

Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap!

Who'd think this gorgeous creature's only virtue

Is that in battle he will never hurt you?

Hannibal Hunsiker.

Exempli gratia

Exempli gratia, mostly known in English-speaking countries by its abbreviation e.g., means for the sake of example in Latin. It's often confused with id est

Fudge For Bear-No they ddidn't!

Too much muscle--no, it's not!
WWW!XXX!iii!

IF STACEY DIDN'T SEE IT-DIDN'T HAPPEY!

Deviled Ham Dip or Spread

for chips or 'Finger sandwiches', appetizers.

Recipe;
2 Cups of minced ham, spam or salmon
3 Tbsp minced onion
1 tsp parsely
1 package cream cheese.  Cut the crusts off th ebread slices, layer with spread as many (3) slices of bread as you like.

Here is the Finger sandwiches with relish and without cream cheese.

Serenades

The Irish nightingale

Is a sedge-warbler,

A little bird with a big voice

Kicking up a racket all night.

Not what you'd expect 

From the musical nation.

I haven't even heard one--

Nor an owl, for that matter.

My serenades have been 

The broken voice of a crow

In a draught or a dream,

The wheeze of bats

Or the ack-ack

Of the tramp corncrake

Lost in a no man's land

Between combines and chemicals.

So fill the bottles, love,

Leave them inside their cots.

And if they do wake us, well,

So would the sedge-warbler.

Seamus Heaney 

Tea & Scones (Moist & Delicious!)

PANDI-Scones

Recipe:

400- 15 to 20 min.

2 cups of Flour
1/4 cup of Sugar
1 Tbsp Baking powder
Opt* Zest of one Lemon (Chris uses 3 lemons)
1/4 tsp salt
4 Tbsp Butter
2 Large Eggs
1/2 Cup heavy cream
3 Tbsp Lemon Yogurt. (I used raspberry greek kind)

http://coffeeworks.blogs.com/coffee_and_tea/2007/01/lemon_cream_sco.html

Spritz Cookies for Saint Patricks Day

Here is the recipe I used, and also the one I suggest to use.
First one:
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 cups all-purpose flour

Second Spritz cookie recipe:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp clear vanilla extract
1/2 tsp no-color Almond extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt.

Good Grips!

I even like the name!
Greenhouse (my apartment addiction)
Saint Patty's Day!

Applesauce Coffee Cake

Recipe:
1 1/3 cups unsifted all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/3 cup cooking oil
1 egg
1 cup canned applesauce
1/2 cup chopped pitted dates
1/2 cup saisins
1/2 cup chopped nuts
pour into 12x8x2 in. MICROWAVEABLE dish which has been greased on bottom only.  Microwave at high 10 to 12 minutes. I  you don't have a microwaveable dish like me, bake at 350' for 10 to 15 min. then microwave till a toothpick comes out clean.  I used cream-cheese-butter frosting.

Tea and Shooters

Language, n.  The music with which we charm the serpents gaurding another's treasure.